Re: [Mingw-users] Problems with cross-compile from linux to win32: linking process add __impl__ prefix to function names

[JonY <jo...@us...>]

On 3/22/2012 23:30, Leandro Santiago wrote:
> 2012/3/22 Leandro Santiago 
>> Hello to all. I'm using ubuntu 11.04 (32-bits) to cross-compile some
>> static libraries to windows.
>>
>> I'm using mingw-w32 1.0, downloded from mingw-64 sf page.
>>
>> In some libraries I'm compiling, I have an error in the link time,
>> when in the line of the source when e.g a function called myFunction()
>> is called, in linking time the linker tries to call
>> __impl__myFunction(), which is undefined.
>>
>> To reproduce this error, download libconfig-1.4.8.tar.gz from
>> http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/
>>
>> The configure parameters I used were:
>> --prefix=$BUILD_PATH --disable-shared --enable-static --host=i686-w64-mingw32

The code assumes DLLs will be build. __imp__ means the symbol needs to
be resolved from a DLL.

Ask the libconfig developers for help, its a bug in their code, likely
due to a misunderstanding on what dllexport/dllimport does.

Alternatively, don't do static builds, until its fixed upstream.